《Autobiography of My Mother》

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作者: Jamaica Kincaid
出版社: Plume
出版年: 1997-01-01
页数: 240
定价: USD 14.00
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780452274662

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Kincaid's new and long-awaited novel is a powerful and unforgettable story of loss, longing, loving, and survival that resonants with the proud insurgence of the human will. The story of Xuela, whose mother dies at the moment she is born, presents "an indeliable portrait of an angry woman" (New York Times) "most comparable, perhaps, to Camus' The Stranger" (Washington Post Book...

Kincaid's new and long-awaited novel is a powerful and unforgettable story of loss, longing, loving, and survival that resonants with the proud insurgence of the human will. The story of Xuela, whose mother dies at the moment she is born, presents "an indeliable portrait of an angry woman" (New York Times) "most comparable, perhaps, to Camus' The Stranger" (Washington Post Book World).

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牙买加·琴凯德美国著名作家。l7岁时背井离乡到纽约的富人家当女仆，因缘际会之下开始写作。从1976年开始为《纽约客》撰稿长达20年之久。其主要作品有《在河底》、《我母亲的自传》、《我的弟弟》等。

作为当代英语文学界极为重要的作家之一，琴凯德经常被评论界拿来同沃尔·索因卡、德拉克·沃尔科特。托妮·莫里森以及奈保尔等作家相提并论，而这四位作家分别是1986年、l992年、l993年和2001年的诺贝尔文

学奖获得者。美国当代最知名、最有影响力的批评家与作家苏珊·桑塔格曾说：“当代英语作家中，我想读的没几人。只有琴凯德的作品，是我一向最想要读的。